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BACKGROUND: Adolescent obesity has rapidly increased in recent years in South Korea due to westernized life style. Family is one of the most important factors to affect body weight in...
Park JH, Chang YJ, Hwang SW, Kim JS, Kim KN, Cho BL
KMID: 2294802
J Korean Acad Fam Med.
2003 Jun;24(6):556-564.
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on Korean average VO2max values. This study attempted to yield average values of VO2max corresponding to each age group of Koreans. This study...
BACKGROUND: This study was performed to find out about the factors related to administration of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women.
METHODS: One thousand seventy three postmenopausal women living...
BACKGROUND: As the population with chronic degenerative disease or functional impairment has increased in terms of the advanced aging society, the inevitability of home health services for the homebound have...
BACKGROUND: This study investigated the handwashing in clinical nurses for prevention and control of nosocomial infection.
METHODS: The subjects were 192 nurses at a university hospital in Busan. The data...
BACKGROUND: The effect of smoking on obesity and fat distribution is controversial. We evaluated the difference of fat distribution and obesity according to the amount of smoking, and the influence...